Did Manisha really die by suicide? Haryana’s 19-year-old teacher’s mysterious death

The death of 19-year-old Manisha in Haryana has left behind anger, protests, and unanswered questions.

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00:00Was Manisha's case really a suicide?

00:02In Haryana's Bhivani, this 19-year-old play school teacher left school on August 11 to

00:07visit a nursing college.

00:08She never returned.

00:09When her father filed a missing complaint, local police allegedly brushed it off, saying

00:14she had run away and would return in two days.

00:16The family said police took them to the nursing college, where three reportedly intoxicated

00:20men denied seeing Manisha and set the college shut at 1pm.

00:24On August 13, a farmer found her body in a field near Singhani village, her throat slit.

00:29Anger exploded, markets shut down, villagers held a maha panchayat, blocked highways and

00:34refused her cremation until arrests were made.

00:36Days after protests, police are probing the death of 19-year-old Manisha as a suspected

00:40suicide.

00:41A note in her bag said she didn't want to be a burden on her parents.

00:45Police said she had purchased insecticide before going missing.

00:48The autopsy found no semen traces but a severely decomposed body, while doctors later confirmed

00:53poison in her system and said the wounds were from wild animals with no signs of force.

00:57But serious questions remain.

00:59Why did it take so many days for the suicide note to surface?

01:03This is the same case that forced Haryana Chief Minister Nayib Singh Saini to suspend officials,

01:07so what explains the delay and confusion?

01:10And even now, as protests rage and villagers reject the committee's decision and forensic

01:14report, why is Manisha's death absent from national headlines?

01:16The

01:28state of the state of the state of the state, where is Manisha's death?